Word: better
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike the ordinary citizen, the Government could not adjust its budget by moving to a cheaper neighborhood or finding a better job. But there were some alternatives...
There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast . . . The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being." -John Ruskin Six thousand feet above Arkansas the left outboard engine of the big DC-6 began to pop dangerous orange flames. Unhurriedly, as became his 52 years...
...served his New Jersey district in Congress for twelve years, had even been re-elected last November with the charges hanging over him. He had indignantly denied them then. Due in federal court for sentencing this week, he was expected also to resign from Congress, to let a better American take his place...
...proving some indiscretions with a brunette model named Francesca Simms in 1945. This irritated Antenor to the point of trying for a Paris divorce, but he soon discovered there would be considerable alimony involved. He wanted to try again in La Paz, where the judges knew him better, only to find that under existing Bolivian law he could get no divorce...
...good performance of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta in that the performers enjoy themselves. The Canterbury players who gave "Patience" at the Christ Church Parish House last night, and who will repeat tonight, had a better time by far acting than the audience had listening. The result was a great show...